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Parting the Waters
by Taylor Branch
Available on: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
This audio adaptation focuses primarily on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the key moments that defined his rise to the forefront of the civil rights movement...
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A Survey of The Middle Ages
Available on: Audio Download ($7.99)
In this 12 hour mp3 audiobook, Pruskin takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Italian Renaissance.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist.
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A Survey of Ancient History
Available on: Audio Download ($7.99)
In this eight hour audiobook, five thousand years of history have been condensed into a concise and easy to follow series of lectures.
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A History of Rome
Available on: Audio Download ($7.99)
Part 1 presents the personalities that dominated the struggle for power in ancient rome...
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The Greatest Speeches of All Time
by Susan B. Anthony
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50)
More than 40 speeches - considered among the greatest of all time - comprise this marvelous collection...
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Founding Brothers
by Joseph J. Ellis
Available on: Audio Download ($20.99) | Audio CD ($31.99) | Audio Cassette ($26.96)
Here are six fascinating, well-researched chapters involving such icons as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
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The Gospel of the Second Coming
by Timothy Freke
Available on: Audio Download ($15.57) | Audio CD ($23.95)
In 2005, a disgruntled archivist at the Vatican Library made contact with revisionist historians Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, claiming that the Vatican was secretly housing a number of unpublished “heretical” Gnostic Christian texts.
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Team of Rivals
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Available on: Audio Download ($18.22) | Audio CD ($31.96) | Audio Cassette
On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 1
by Edward Gibbon
Available on: Audio Download ($33.58) | Audio CD ($33.58) | Audio Cassette
Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the greatest texts in the English language. In magisterial prose, Gibbon charts...
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Reality 2.0
by Daniel Pinchbeck
Available on: Audio Download ($20.97) | Audio CD
What is it that attracts shamans, mystics, and other visionaries to the experience of altered states?
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Liberty and its Price: Understanding the French Revolution
by Donald M.G. Sutherland
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Esteemed professor Donald M.G. Sutherland provides a riveting account of the French Revolution, explaining how its effects varied greatly according to regional economies, social structures, and religious affiliations.
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Journeys of the Great Explorers: Columbus To Cook
by Glyndwr Williams
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
One of the most dramatic periods in world history is the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century to the voyages of James Cook in the eighteenth century.
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They Saw It Happen
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($28.98) | Audio Cassette
Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts of notable historical events beginning with the Spartans at Thermopylae in 480 BC through to and including the Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945....
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Cold War
by David Painter
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The devastating US atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only brought World War II to an end, but effectively gave birth to the Cold War.
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In the Ruins of Empire
by Ronald H. Spector
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Americans are accustomed to thinking that World War II ended on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Yet on the mainland of Asia, in the vast arc stretching from Manchuria to Burma, peace was a brief, fretful interlude.
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Lords of Finance
by Liaquat Ahamed
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($44.99) | MP3 CD ($31.49)
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control.
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World's First Superpower I: The Rise of the British Empire From 1497 To 1901
by Denis Judd
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
This course will examine the growth and development of the largest empire in world history - the British Empire - beginning with the late fifteenth century Tudor dynasty in England and ending with the death of the Queen-Empress Victoria in 1901.
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The Outline of History
by H.G. Wells
Available on: Audio Download ($31.95) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H.G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world...
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Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Kurlansky
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($23.99)
From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II could have been avoided by nonviolent means.
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 2
by Edward Gibbon
Available on: Audio Download ($33.58) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces...
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Anglo-Saxon World
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Had the Angles and Saxons not purposefully migrated to the isles of the Britons and brought with them their already-well-developed use of language, Angelina Jolie may never have appeared in the movie Beowulf.
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Lincoln
by David Herbert Donald
Available on: Audio Download ($24.86) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Culminating his half-century of study of Lincoln and his times, Donald brilliantly traces Lincoln's rise from humble origins to the pinnacle of the presidency.
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Nazism and War
by Richard Bessel
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49)
Richard Bessel, history professor at the University of York, specializes in the social and political history of Nazi Germany. In four compelling essays, he forcefully argues that racism made war inevitable.
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
Written by Sun Tzu in the 6th Century BC, the Art of War now stands as a definitive distillation of ancient military Strategy.
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